Brave New World: Characteristics Of The Science Fiction Genre

Characteristics of the science fiction genre Science fiction is often based on scientific principles and technology. In brave new world, from the start is all about the technology where they use of technology is to control the society. One of the biggest technology that they illustrated is the rigid control of reproduction through medical and technological intervention, such as the surgical removal of ovaries (The Bokanovsky Process and hynopaedic conditioning). The main idea was to keep bettering of technology by not increasing scientific experiments but to create a society which is seamless, happy world through things such as the “feelies”. At the same time, the State is trying to maintain the technology because the State only focuses

In Brave New World, the main content characters within the novel are those the one who have unsighted themselves to the reality of their situation by taking the drug called “soma”. However as soon as the characters stop taking the drugs, they find their life living depressingly except for John The Savage, who is the main character after the narrator switched up the protagonist in the mid of the book from Bernard Marx to John who is then gets horrified by the drug, how the drug controls the people and that they are being treated as a slave which he then could not stand it and commits suicide. The most interesting part of Brave New World being dystopian society is that in other novels, the government hide the methods they use to control its people, however, in Brave New World, the control Mustapha Mondo and the Director tells the students who are new to the society and other people like John who are new and against the rules of the society, shows that there is no secret. The government openly controls the masses through the distribution of the drug Soma, they enthusiastically and willingly